Explain

Test Kitchen is the product of many people’s efforts.  Test Kitchen is a showcase for chefs by restaurateurs and allows for experimentation and testing of new ideas and concepts.  Visiting chefs will be serving dishes they are working on for future restaurant projects.  Mixologists provide innovative pairing opportunities and avenues to express their craft.  Each chef will be working alone or in consultation with Ricardo Zarate, who is currently finalizing his own restaurant.

In the words of others:

“So, in a way, the most interesting opening of the season may be neither WP24 nor the heavily promoted Red O but the new Test Kitchen, which is less a restaurant than it is a club that happens to feature food instead of music; a venue where every night is opening night, the name chef is always behind the range, adrenaline is the drug of choice and cooking is performance art.”
– Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly

“Test Kitchen could be dubbed the Woodstock of L.A.’s dining scene. It’s a chaotic and creative hodgepodge of big-name chefs and mixologists converging for an abbreviated stint in front of the stove or at the bar to test new concepts or simply experiment with different styles of cooking.”
–Krista Simmons, Los Angeles Times

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